Has anyone had success setting
a fresh new install of Mastodon?
On 2025-03-17, The Doctor <doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca> wrote:
Has anyone had success setting
a fresh new install of Mastodon?
our collectie "hispagatos" has been running an instance of mastodon and >matrix chat since they were in alpha stage, so I have a ton of
experience, I can not bouch for packages since we been upgrading since
nobody know much about it, we use git, our setup is
a member of our colletive runs some servers on his basement, one of this >server is for us to use and runs Arch GNU/Linux is a roling release so
this helps a lot specially for long term, no need to do mayor >upgrades(debian/ubuntu) and is faster to get security patching from
upstream than most other distros.
We follow the documentation for a source/git install that basically is
you create user lets say mastodon
you su - to it and follow the instruction this all go around installing
irb for ruby env and then the rest, I advice to use this setup if you
want long term easy of mind :)
I am at working now but just duckduckgo something like "mastodon doc
source install" and follow the instructions make sure your irb install
is well setup for the user "mastodon" so mastodon is not using system >libraries (I can see already issues with debian since is so slow to
update)
feel free to contact me on matrix/mastodon/fediverse you will find my info on >my signature
Hope this helps
Happy Hacking
ReK2
feel free to contact me on matrix/mastodon/fediverse you will find my
info on my signature
On Mon, 17 Mar 2025 17:46:46 -0000 (UTC), rek2 hispagatos wrote:
feel free to contact me on matrix/mastodon/fediverse you will find my
info on my signature
No signature?
On 2025-03-17, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
On Mon, 17 Mar 2025 17:46:46 -0000 (UTC), rek2 hispagatos wrote:
feel free to contact me on matrix/mastodon/fediverse you will find my
info on my signature
No signature?
ops! sorry I send that msg from my linux librem tablet and I do not have >setup a .signature on my slrn there. but here it is below.
@doctor: Yes using arch GNU/Linux, follow the source instructions not
the package if
that is your case if indeed using source/git clone then make sure irb
and your env is setup correctly with their recomended versions of
node,ruby etc
```
Dependencies
# External dependencies have not changed since v4.3.0, the compatible
Ruby, PostgreSQL, Node, Elasticsearch and Redis versions are the same,
that is:
- Ruby: 3.1 or newer
- PostgreSQL: 12 or newer. PostgreSQL versions 14.0
to 14.3 are not supported as they contain a critical data-corruption
bug (see v4.3.0 release notes)
- Elasticsearch (recommended, for full-text search): 7.x
(OpenSearch should also work)
- LibreTranslate (optional, for translations): 1.3.3 or newer
- Redis: 4 or newer
- Node: 18 or newer
- ImageMagick (optional if using libvips): 6.9.7-7 or newer
- libvips (optional, instead of ImageMagick): 8.13 or newer
```
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases >https://docs.joinmastodon.org/admin/install
Happy Hacking
ReK2
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In article <vrapr2$2sa4s$2@matrix.hispagatos.org>,
rek2 hispagatos <rek2@hispagatos.org> wrote:
On 2025-03-17, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
On Mon, 17 Mar 2025 17:46:46 -0000 (UTC), rek2 hispagatos wrote:
feel free to contact me on matrix/mastodon/fediverse you will find my
info on my signature
No signature?
ops! sorry I send that msg from my linux librem tablet and I do not have >>setup a .signature on my slrn there. but here it is below.
@doctor: Yes using arch GNU/Linux, follow the source instructions not
the package if
that is your case if indeed using source/git clone then make sure irb
and your env is setup correctly with their recomended versions of
node,ruby etc
```
Dependencies
# External dependencies have not changed since v4.3.0, the compatible
Ruby, PostgreSQL, Node, Elasticsearch and Redis versions are the same,
that is:
- Ruby: 3.1 or newer
- PostgreSQL: 12 or newer. PostgreSQL versions 14.0
to 14.3 are not supported as they contain a critical data-corruption
bug (see v4.3.0 release notes)
- Elasticsearch (recommended, for full-text search): 7.x
(OpenSearch should also work)
- LibreTranslate (optional, for translations): 1.3.3 or newer
- Redis: 4 or newer
- Node: 18 or newer
- ImageMagick (optional if using libvips): 6.9.7-7 or newer
- libvips (optional, instead of ImageMagick): 8.13 or newer
```
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases >>https://docs.joinmastodon.org/admin/install
I will give this a try.
Happy Hacking
ReK2
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All right I have attempt to set up Mastodon in
Debian 12 (snap included)
Ubuntu 24 (snap included)
FreeBSD based on https://wiki.freebsd.org/Ports/net-im/mastodon
In comp.os.linux.misc, The Doctor <doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca> wrote:
All right I have attempt to set up Mastodon in
Debian 12 (snap included)
Ubuntu 24 (snap included)
FreeBSD based on https://wiki.freebsd.org/Ports/net-im/mastodon
Mastodon seems a bear to run. Have you considered the lightweight snac2?
https://codeberg.org/grunfink/snac2
I'm paying masto.host for an instance, but would be tempted to switch to snac2 if it suppported account migrations (which, alas, it does not:
"simple, minimalistic" implementations are not full featured).
I might switch my bot account over to a snac2 instance, as I don't care
much about history there. Currently I'm using an even lighter weight activitypub framework, activity-bot. My fork:
https://codeberg.org/elithebearded/activity-bot
Elijah
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if you are installing via snap you might not like complex installs
On 2025-03-19, Eli the Bearded wrote:
In comp.os.linux.misc, The Doctor <doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca> wrote:
All right I have attempt to set up Mastodon in
Debian 12 (snap included)
Ubuntu 24 (snap included)
FreeBSD based on https://wiki.freebsd.org/Ports/net-im/mastodon
Mastodon seems a bear to run. Have you considered the lightweight snac2?
https://codeberg.org/grunfink/snac2
I'm paying masto.host for an instance, but would be tempted to switch to
snac2 if it suppported account migrations (which, alas, it does not:
"simple, minimalistic" implementations are not full featured).
It looks like not even Mastodon fully supports migrations: >https://erinkissane.com/notes-from-a-mastodon-migration
I find it especially concerning that using the migration feature breaks >lists...
While I still have to decide how to do it, I'm changing to a different >instance, and so far it looks like it might be better to keep both
accounts active without migrating.
But Mastodon has more urgent issues, like making the official web UI
more usable instead of trying to clone TSNFKAT :-P
I might switch my bot account over to a snac2 instance, as I don't care
much about history there. Currently I'm using an even lighter weight
activitypub framework, activity-bot. My fork:
https://codeberg.org/elithebearded/activity-bot
Elijah
------
if you are installing via snap you might not like complex installs
--
Nuno Silva
(not following comp.unix.bsd.freebsd)
On 2025-03-19, Eli the Bearded wrote:
But Mastodon has more urgent issues, like making the official web UI
more usable instead of trying to clone TSNFKAT :-P
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